Race thread: 🇫🇷 Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 (June 8 to 15)
Race thread: 🇫🇷 Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 (June 8 to 15)

Official website of Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes race 2025

3 heavy-weight riders shall start: Pogatchar (🇸🇮 UAE), Vingegaard (🇩🇰 Visma) and Evenepoel (🇧🇪 Soudal-QS).
There will be a few outsiders as well, like Lipowitz (🇩🇪 Bora), Mas (🇪🇸 Movistar) or L. Martinez (🇫🇷 Bahrein).
This will be the last professional race of Romain Bardet (🇫🇷 Picnic). On the other side of the age spectrum, Seixas (🇫🇷 Decathlon) will start his first major race.
During the first half of the race, sprinters and punchers will battle for stages: Milan (🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek), Healy (🇮🇪 EF)...
Stage 4
The time trial. The length and profile are of very common types these days: 17 km flat, with a climb (about 2 km at 8%) in the middle.
Fairly short TTs seem to be the norm these days. This looks like a slot-in for Evenepoel, but I guess we should also expect the other favourites to be in the mix. Curious to see who will place better between Pog & Vingegaard and if Romeo and Lipowitz can keep up with them.
You predicted it right, except for Jorgenson inserting himself between Vingegaard and Pogatchar (who finished only 4th: we could have expected him to come 2nd, ahead of Vingegaard and outsiders).
Both (and Van der Poel too) came close to keep or take the yellow jersey. But Evenepoel crushed everyone, favourites and yesterday's breakawaymen.